Cellphone footage from July 13 shows Trump rallygoers attempting to warn police of Thomas Matthew Crooks crawling to a vantage point to shoot at the former president.
Cellphone video taken on Saturday shows panicked Trump rally attendees pointing at shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks and yelling to alert police as he shimmied across a roof and into position minutes before he fired. Video from the scene appears to show attendees trying to alert authorities to the shooter's presence 86 seconds before Crooks fired.
One of those snipers saw Crooks outside the building looking up at the roof and observing the building before disappearing, a local law enforcement officer told CBS News. He then saw the gunman return to the building, sit down and look at his phone. One of the snipers took a picture of Crooks, then saw him looking through a rangefinder minutes before the assassination attempt, per the outlet. He radioed a command post and tried to send the photo up the chain of command before Crooks fired.
Officials have said Crooks acted alone in trying to kill Trump but are still investigating. His classmates at Bethel Park High School, where he graduated in 2022, characterized him as a quiet loner who was bullied.
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